Shiran Victoria Shen (California Stanford University)

The Political Regulation Wave

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can systematically affect bureaucratic regulation and empirically examines the control of different air pollutants in China and à â â to a lesser extent à â â in Mexico.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781009107099
• ISBN-10: 1009107097
• Artikelnr.: 64367481

Autorenporträt

Shiran Victoria Shen is a Stanford-trained political scientist and environmental engineer currently based at the Hoover Institution. Her research explores the intersections of political science, public policy, environmental sciences, and engineering, with a particular interest in how local politics influence environmental governance. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: an inconvenient truth
2. Theory of the political regulation wave
3. Local governance in China
4. The case of sulfur dioxide control
5. The case of fine particulate matter control
6. The tradeoffs of the political regulation wave
7. Conclusion: rethinking governance.